Jaziri shines on despite floodlight failure in Dubai

Following his upset win against Grigor Dimitrov, Malek Jaziri marched on at the Dubai Tennis Championships on Wednesday.

Malek Jaziri did not allow a floodlight failure to distract him on his way to a straight-sets victory over Robin Haase at the Dubai Tennis Championships.

Jaziri was the star of the show on Tuesday when he knocked out top seed Grigor Dimitrov in his first victory over a top-10 opponent, and his first over a top-100 player in 11 months.

And the Tunisian, who reached the quarter-finals here in 2014, is into the last eight once more thanks to a 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-3) victory, delayed momentarily by an electrical fault in the second set.

Jaziri's path through the tournament has opened up somewhat, with Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece upsetting sixth seed Philipp Kohlschreiber over three sets to set up a clash between the tournament's two surprise packages.